With some ink left in the pen’s barrel, 8yo improvised pen because he could not afford a pencil

There is nothing special about books, pencils, and erasers—until you don’t have them. A lot of people take them for granted but not a grade 2 student, Jan Kim Enario from the Philippines who went viral for using an improvised pen in school.

The 8-year-old Union Elementary School student in Samar wanted to find a way to do his class seatwork and was trying his best to participate even without a proper ballpen to write. When his teacher, Maricor Baculanta found out about the origins of the pen, she could not stop crying and shared the photos on her social media.

Maricor recalled the time she gave an exercise to her class when she noticed something different about Jan’s ball pen and he’s too shy to show it to her!